When will Armenia, following Georgia’s example, give a political assessment of the 2020 war?

The Political Council of the ruling Georgian Dream Party published a statement on August 13 accusing Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement of the 2008 war and urges to hold the perpetrators accountable for the events of 16 years ago.

“Saakashvili’s adventurous actions in August 2008 were not the result of his mental instability but of outside instructions and well-planned betrayal,” the text says.
The Georgian Dream stressed that to establish long-term peace and stability in the country, it is vital to organize a public legal process so that society can once and for all find out “who committed this treacherous crime against the country and its people.”

The statement largely repeats those previously made by another Georgian party, People’s Power. In this party, they went further and directly pointed out that Mikheil Saakashvili and his team carried out the most difficult tasks against Georgia, and after the August 2008 events, Russia was called an “invader” by the authorities, and the United States was called “a strategic partner.”
It became clear from the statement that the party had noticed that, understanding the importance of Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the people of Georgia, the Americans brought to power an instigator who ignited the war in 2008, as a result of which Russia recognized the independence of these two republics, which for many years made the partnership between Moscow and Tbilisi unthinkable.

Today, the Georgian Dream Party goes further and notes that a trial should take place over the participants in the events of 2008, and the public should find out what really happened in August of 2008. This initiative is nothing more than a political assessment of historical events.

A logical question arises: when will Armenia, following Georgia’s example, give a political assessment of the 2020 war? Could it turn out that the 2020 war was also the result of the involvement of a number of non-regional players in the domestic policy of the country? Moreover, it is obvious that the events of fall 2022, fall 2023, and spring 2018 also need a political assessment. The assessment and its consequences are necessary so that every political actor in Armenia knows that gambling with the state is not just immoral but will inevitably lead to punishment.

By the way, the one who previously told about who was really behind the 2008 war was former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who wrote the following in his memoirs about the war on August 8, 2008: “My opinion about him (Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili) is ambiguous. But he made a mistake twice. First of all, he was cruelly mistaken when he imagined that the Americans would join the war because of him. In addition, he has heard this promise from many American officials. If he had thought carefully, he would have realized that these were empty words… two such mistakes were too much.”

And who do you think was and is behind the events in Armenia and Artsakh in the period from 2018 to the present day?

Think about it…